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apobetics · Guest

Nietzsche & Darwin 2

The early 1900s witnessed such an intoxicating allure of Nietzsche's
ideas over America and throughout the West, that Jonah Goldberg in his
excellent new book, "Liberal Fascism," chronicled, "A week before
America joined the war, Walter Lippmann (who would later write much of
[President] Wilson's 14 Points) promises that hostilities would bring
out a 'transvaluation of values as radical as anything in the history
of intellect.'"
Herbert Croly, editor and progressive standard bearer of the New
Republic, affirmed the radical zeitgeist of Nietzsche writing that
"this [WWI] was a transparent invocation of Nietzsche's call for
overturning all traditional morality." Croly and Lippmann were
protegees of William James – father of American pragmatism who in turn
was influenced by Italian pragmatism (Mussolini). The philosophical
lineage was unbroken – Lippmann, James, Theodore Roosevelt, H.L.
Mencken, liberals, progressives, academics, socialists, artists and
intellectuals pre-World War II, were all in one way or another greatly
influenced by the writings and ideas of Nietzsche.

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Cory Albrecht · Guest

apobetics wrote, On 08/07/08 11:24 AM: